Spiritual Nourishment Quotes:

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

source: William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

topic: Easter, Health, Sleep, Sounds Of Silence, Nourishment

Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

- Dallin H. Oaks

topic: Spiritual, Hurtful, Body, Malnutrition, Nourishment

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

topic: Spiritual, Men, Soul, Nourishment, Spiritual Nourishment

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

- James Brown

source: James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.63, Head of Zeus

topic: Spiritual, Father, Struggle, Nourishment, Spiritual Nourishment

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Life, Spiritual, Patriotic, Nourishment, Spiritual Nourishment

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

- John Owen

topic: Spiritual, Soul, Desire, Spiritual Nourishment

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Spiritual, Hurt, Commitment, Spiritual Nourishment, Immersion

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

- Lewis Mumford

source: "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

topic: Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge, Nourishment, Spiritual Nourishment

It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church...you should read the Scriptures.

- Rich Mullins

source: Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Thinking, Spiritual Nourishment, Christian Music

This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.

- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

topic: Bible, Spiritual, Heart, Spiritual Nourishment, Infinite Love

In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.

- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

topic: Spiritual, Talking, Bread Of Life, Spiritual Nourishment, Everlasting Life